🌿 Bitter Melon
[Name] Bitter Melon.
[Flavor and Nature] Bitter, cold in nature.
[Meridian Attribution] Enters the heart, liver, spleen, and lung meridians.
[Functions] Clears heat and relieves summer-heat, brightens the eyes and detoxifies. Used for heatstroke, summer-heat thirst, boils, excessive heat rash, redness and swelling of the eyes, carbuncles, erysipelas, burns and scalds, dysentery, etc.
[Components] Momordoside, 5-hydroxytryptamine, various amino acids (glutamic acid, alanine, proline, etc.), galacturonic acid, pectin, etc.
[Note] Recent studies have found that a certain lipoprotein in bitter melon has anti-cancer properties, which holds potential for future development.